Archive for the 'Persiflage' Category

The Crazy Poached Egg Mystery
Wednesday, November 7th, 2007

In this article by Thomas Szasz, both C.S. Lewis and Bertrand Russell are quoted using a lunatic who thinks he is a poached egg as real evidence of insanity, but they acknowledge the difficulty of the situation. Here is the Russell excerpt: It is therefore important to discover whether there is any answer to Hume [...]

Nock, Early Drinking; No Rabelais
Sunday, October 14th, 2007

Jeffrey Tucker is a conservative; he does not go far enough. He writes about Nock here (an earlier version of which appeared here), and about drinking alcohol at breakfast here. He does it well, but does not seem to have read the many writings of Nock on Rabelais (Nock often mentions Rabelais incidentally, so he [...]

These are testing times
Saturday, May 12th, 2007

indeed